The boss a major software firm has revealed a 'coffee cup test' he uses during interviews, with people being blacklisted from the company for failing it. The simple experiment is used at the end of every job interview carried out by Trent Innes.
Mr Innes is the former MD of Xero Australia and was discussing his interviewing method on the business podcast The Venture, with entrepreneur Lambros Photios. He explained: "I will always take you for a walk down to one of our kitchens and somehow you always end up walking away with a drink.
"Then we take that back, have our interview, and one of the things I'm always looking for at the end of the interview is, does the person doing the interview want to take that empty cup back to the kitchen?
